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A. IL. Itlitlol, Editor & Proprietor,
VOL. 62.
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS
DELIVERED JUNE 22, 1862
BY PROP. W. C.:WILSON
GENTLEMEN.-1 our career thus far
has been one of preparation merely. You
have been rehearsing the parts you are
to act• in the great Drama of Life. That
preparation, as far as we are conce.ned,
is now over. Your rehearsel is ended :
the hour fur the perhirmanee is at hand
and the audience awaits your appearance
upon the stage. In the brief' space then
that remains, while we are waiting be
hind the scenes for the overture to end,
and the curtain to rise, let us take the
last opportunity for a little friendly coun
sel together.
..this breaks the last link
that binds us together officially. What
ever may have been the short-comings of
the past, on either side, it is now too late
to repair them. You must suffer the loss
of wasted opportunities, while we regret
the want of greater fiirthfulucss to our
trust. But do not think our interest in
you will end with our official relation.—
Our daily association has begotten a per
sonal interest in each one of you, which
cannot end here. When the scene opens
and you go upon the stage to act, we
shall go quietly down into the audience
as spectators. But not disinterested ones.
If any of you. through negligence, or
shameless blundering, should provoke the
hisses of the audience, we shall feel
ashanvd - of you. When your holiest and
earnest effirts to succeed are met with
cold indifference we shall sympathize
with you, but urge you to renewed per
severance, that in the end must win ap
proval. But when yOu have honorably
earned the applause of the world, we
shall feel proud of' you—proud that you
bear, our mark, and that we have had
share in shaping-tlie- character the
world admires.
Gentlemen—l ant hero tomi7lit to
speak plainly to yore. fly position, tts
well as your own iucila i nt, en iik s tur
to that privilege. And while I shall re
spect the sanctity or this day, and the
place where I stand, I shall not allow any
merely con veatin real restrictions to trammel
my utterance of what I coneeive to he
the truth. I aut not—herc to stiroulam
your ani . iition. or 11Ther your vanity.—
For my part I do
either the ambition or Ili , . vanity of yming
MOH leaving college ne,d , much pt
lilting. As a general thin : : their ain't i•-•
already too high for the wei,,,ht "r th:•ir
metal, or tic force of the chance they
carry. I would rather rcstrain
hrtiun ;red mods ri,te you! ;Pm, until you
have tested the s'rongth and d..ttliiined
the range of your powers. If you would
make your shot tell, aim at an ,Wjee , yon
know to be within your reach. ,If you
aim at-the-sun, you surely not hit
your mark, and tray miss everything be
low it, Do not fancy that the woi Id is
standim; wait:trig, ear in h^ to rnalic its
prufut ost bow as you ;;o out from these
walls, or that your diploma is to be an
open sesame, that will unlock every door
to place and power. The great world is
too busy with its own important questions
to be disturbed, even by the entrance of
thirteen Bachelors of Arts, flourishing
their sheep-skins in its face. You will .
soon find, in whatever department of life
you enter, abler and better men than
yourselves, who have never been to col-
The world is not sn easily imposed
on after all IE generally recognizes real
merit wherever it finds it. It will inex
orably demand what you can do, not,
where you graduated. And be assured
it will not honor your parchment., until
you have shown that you can do wore
with it. than other men without it. It
will soon put you into its inevitable cru
cible, and test how much of you is pure
metal arid how touch base
it is only the noble metal dial es
mated, while while the alloy goes for nothing,
so you, whatever pretence you may wake,
will soon he valued only for what is noble
and pure in you. You may pass current
for a time, but you will soon be branded
as a base counterfeit, if you have not the
true ring and shine.
I must here protest against. the popular
doctrine that "a man may be whatever
he wills to be." It has been so constant
ly and persistently inculcated into the
minds of tte children in our schools, and
proclaimed by blating demagogues from
the stump to gaping crowds of children
of larger growth, that we see its perni
cious effects in the almost universal dia.
content of our people with their lot,
Not satisfied to fill well the station in
which providence has placed them, they
aro conqantly striving to be something
else, which God never intended they
should be; and failingin their 'efforts to
rise, as they term they become soured
and envious of those whop they fancy
have been more favored' than themselves.
I would have you remember, gentlemen,
that the characters you are to.represent
in this Life•Drania before you,lave been
- selected toriyou by the Great- Manager
who has arriniged it fur the stage•of the
world. These are the elnuacters , you.wili
act the best. Take them and be content
— with them. Try to learn thonand stick
to them: Do not ape what, you are not fit
for, because you may have an idea that it is
more respectable than your own part.
God ,has put you down fur comedy or
even farce play it truthfully, and you will
win your share of applause,. but do not Itt,J
tempt tragedy. You will on - get hisses
for your pains if yon do—and deserved
ly. Do not attempt to ploy a. star-pare
when you were i„,titentled only for a kook
actor. Remember there are but few star•
parts,. and but few were ever intended to
play-them. It takes all sorts of oharacterr
to complete thin Worjd-Dratna, iuid some
body must act them. other :words, 1
. btilieve that every man w 719 mails on pur
pose, that every man has his place in .the
- world,••and that-he was •Inado spedialbr fun
that place. It
,is only . by earnestly fillips
than plaCe that.he fulfills his- ,dustin3
and answers
s theend for. which Gott area
ted hirm Confusion and:disappointment
only glee froicaour efforto.to got into some
other place than the one for which we were
intended. The range of our choice ii.
limited by the character and the facultiea
God has given us, and the circumstances
by which he has surrounded us, and which
have modified that character and devel
oped those faculties. Each man is crea
ted with certain possibilities which deter
mine the direction he must go and the
height to which lie may rise. We
n!e I not therefore remain in doubt
as to our duty. Our path lies so plainly
marked out. fur us, that it is easy for us
to fi nd it if we choose. Our work is so
near us, that we need not seek long for it,
if we have willing hearts and willing
hands to do
, •'No man IN born Into the world whose work
Is not born with Mtn, there Is alwa3s
And tools to work withal, for those who will."
The same power that Created you and
rained you for your work, has brought
hat work to you, Do not go
out of your way to seek for something
grand and imposing to do, but take up . at
once the simplest and plainest duty that
lies before yuu, and you will not gu wrong
Do not stand waiting for signs and won
ders to reveal to icu what God would have
you do, but listen to the voices within you
and around you calling you to your work.
Trust those voicesand have faith in hum
ble things; then God will seek you, and
light and strength be given toyou as'your
path opens wider an,. higher before your
advancing footsteps. I believe God calls
men to humble duties as well as great
ones—for to hint all duty is equally
great ; and woe be,,rinfertim who disre
gards that call. We arc willing to recog
nize this ca/1 to the Ministry, then why
not to the other pursuits of life? is
preaching the Gospel the only duty that.
God recognizes ? It is because we wait
fbr God to manifest himself in the light
ning and the tlmoder that we fail to hear
his voice in our own hearts and in file in
dications of cumstances about us, and
thus go :1 4- 4ray, groping . our way blindly!
and stumbling nn through life in darkness
and doubt. No man ever accomplished
flinch who had not this idea of a voc,ition,
who did not feel that he was called of
God to do that. VPIIII All great
men have had faith in their Destiny.
But each one of, us, however humble his,
position, has a Destiny. Then why not
have faifirin it:? For it is only by sub
mitting ourselves to this great. Day; of
Nticessi ty that encircles the world—by
'yielding our dills to the ever flowing tide
of (;od's Providence that we are fu accom
plish the great put pude of ' our lives. fly
opposing and fi:Ating against it' we must
be overwhelmed and crushed. Try then,
6,•ei that you have a.r.wat'
live tip to it. Try to feel and believe
that God intended you for 'something
when lie made you, and recognize the
true digni'y of your,position_ as essential
parts of the -great plan of his . Providence:
Yet, while I would have you recognize
the true dignity of your calling and urge
I yeu to energy and perseverance in the,
pursuit of it, I would still have you rise:
above it. Remember that you are to live!
by it, not for it, that it is a means to your!
highest life, not its end. Your manhood'
is more than any vocation—even the high-,
est and holiest. Alaster your profession,
but do riot let it master you. Do not al
'Ow the greedy desire for wealth or fame,
or position, or power, to reduce you to
that most dreary and helpless of all forms
of slavery, slavery to your business
Many men acquire these at a most fear
ful sacrifice of the finer and better feel
ings of their souls. And it is tits perni
cious example of such men that makes
our common life so mean and prosaic, by
teaching us that power and influence is to
be reached only by crushing out of our ,
lives all the poetry and beauty thfr aod,
has put into them, and reducing all our
ideas to the low standard of hard, sordid
fact. It is high time that these "erni-:
trendy practical" Gradgrinds, that 'we
have worshipped so long, should be de
throned and a higher style of manhood:
elevated to their place. The facts of our
every day life arc / hard enough, and its.
drudgery mean and dirty enough, we all
know, and God knows; and, for that rea.;
‘.s in cui
son, he has created. a higher and better
world into which he would lift us. This
world of ideas, this region of poetry and
romance, is as much God's world as this
lower one of material fact on which it
rests. It was made for your enjoyment.
Rise into it, then, and live 10 it :
"For It bath in it a higher end
Than fact; It Is the possible, compared
With what is merely positive, and glves
To the conceptive soup an inner world,
A. higher, ampler Heaven, than that wherein
The nations sun themselves."
Do not shut up the higher and brighter
chambers of your intellect, as some peo
ple do with their houses, and live only in
the lowest and meanest; but throw open
the windows of your souls and let in all
the genial influences that are everywhere
about-you, so that you nay - live - the • full
and complete life that God intended for
you. If; in search of nourishment, you
must send your roots deep down. into the
substratum of hard facts and everyday,
drudgery, that underlies the life of each
any' of us,let it only be that you may
grow and expand upward and outward
into the broad air and sunlight of Heaven.
If tlod has sent you' into the world,
each with a separate character, as distinct
individuals and not in masses, will he,noi
hold each one of you to a strict account
for the individuality he has given you?.
diull* ynu.then, in the name of Heav•
en, to iiee to it, that you preserve your dis.
tiuotihnd separate personality, that you
re et the influences that would rob you of
andhreduce all men to a dead level of
uaifohnity Do not allow it to bo fused
into the common maks., Do not barter ii
away foi. political aistinction, , for wealth
ior social position, br even as. many do for
cho sake of peace. • G mud it,us a saoreo
,crust. Society ie..cier on the watch te
iteal it away from you:: • Withlts custom,
Ind Its twain, it would cut yoii, all oing
me lengtlt, to lit lie Procrustean Fwd.—.
Your soot and piir' party. would;; out yo t ,
dl' at tho'rooo,' and tio youcup - bundJet•
•hat'innst Nutt . 11gainnt•ach other', arm
agaiust them for !suppo4: But. let thy,
WAIMSZ,
'source of your life be from within, not
from without. Act out fully and freely,
according to its own law, the character
hod has given you. Do not let soeiei'y
with its conventionalities and its proper
ties, train and prune it until all that is
natural and beautiful in it is clipped away.
Your freedom of thought and action is
too dear to be given up to sect or party.
We have plenty of men in masses
sheaves of men—who have no power to
stand alone, but must be propped against
each other for support: and very good
and proper people many of them are,
the world needs men who can stand
by themselves, who grow by their own
roots, who don't need to be propped up,
but who, like the stiardylcak, can withstand
the wind and defy the storm 'Most that
is hest and noblesk;in life is individual
and characteristic; it cannot be subject
ed to external restrictions; it must and
will be a law unto itself. Let each one
then think his own free thoughts, and I
show in his outer the purest and best of
his inner life.
Lot each one think himself an act of aod,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God,
And let each one try by great thoughts and good deeds,
To snow the most of /leaven he bath In him."
But are you ready to pay the price of
your freedom of thought and action?—
Fur be assured, even if it is your birth
right, you will not be allowed to enjoy it
without a struggle. And, it is a strange
fact, that in this country where we boast
so much of our personal freedom, society
has even less toleration than in any other,
for the'iMiividuality that resists or defies
its leveling influences. Free from the
burdensome restraints of Government, we
submit our necks . to the more oppressive
yoke of Public Opinion. We move about
in constant dread of each other, and dare
not call our souls our own for fear of that
meanest of all tyrants, "They'll say."
You must have stout hearts if you would
stand up against the Opposition and ridi
cule of your clique, your sect or your
party, and dare to live your own life, and
think your own thoughts, subject. alone
to God and your own conscience. And
let ine warn you that the most effective
weapon, that will be used in this warfare
upon your individuality, is ritlit tile. Ihe
fiercest denunciation or the most violent
persecution may arouse every energy of
our souls in opposition, but ridicule is so
keen and insinuating, that it seeks out
the tender spots. and finds its way through
the joints of the closest mail, in which we_
may encase ourselves. Many men there
are who would face any danger in defence
of their rights, but who would give up
everything, even manhood itself, to the
sneers of the community in which they.
live. We all knew how much less it hurts
'to be abused than to be laughed at. The
Hery staple of wit and sarcasm are the
individual peculiarities that break over
any of the rules laid down by the social
oracles for the formation of character and
the regulation of deportment. But where
'is the Una man that is not peculiar? The
earnest, great-souled [pan, who feels that
he has au object in life and ha's his own
self-respect and approval, cannot always
be'stopping to inquire what the gossips
of his town or neighborhood may say of
him. Nor need he'eare; for it does not
hurt a man with a back-bone to be com
pelled to stand alone, or to be sent to
Coventry occasionally in vindication of
his right to think and act for himself
If you would lead public opinion, you I
must be able to defy it when you feel it
to be wrong, and show that you arc able
to live without its approval. You will
never get the mastery of it by being its
slave. The weather•eock follows the
wind, but does not direct it. It is the
man who stands by his convictions of
truth and duty through scorn and perse
cution, whom at last the world delights
to honor. They are the favorite heroes
of the earth, who have remained faithful
to the great truths God has revealed
to them in trust for the masses who are
not yet prepared to receive them, and who
stone and crucify the messengers that
are sent unto them. The instincts of
mankind, though slow and erratic, are
sure to come right at last, and the real
benefactors of the race will sootier or later
be recognized
"For Humanity swoops onward: whero to-day the
martyr stands,
On tho morrow crouches Judas with the eilVer In Lie
hands;
Far in trent tho cross 'stands ready, and the crackling
faggots burn,
While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe ro•
turn,
To gloan up the scattered ashes Into lllst.ory's golden
urn.
Then to side with Truth le noblo, whop we share her
wretched crust,
Ere her cause Wing lams and prolle, , abd, 'lie prosperous
.to be just:
Then It is the bravo van chooses, while the coward
stands aside,
Doubting In lthi slued spirit, till his Lord Iq eruelfled,,
And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had
But, gentlemen, there is danger that,
our, efforts to preserye our individuality
may carry us into • intolerablo egotism, and .
cut us off from a healthy sympathy with
the age and the society in which we live.
Independence -may, and- often does-, do•
generate into perverseness. There are
many men, who from an inordinate desire
- to appear to think for themselves, are
always in=opposition—always on the other
side of every question. Such people are
the pests of society, not its heroes, ho‘w
ever , they may covet the crown of mar
ty'rdom. jteally, gentleinen, you will
meet.wiiii obstacles enotigh in the straight
for Ward course of your life, without turn
ing aside to knock ydur heads against
every. post and pillar along side
Don't be running an insane at`every
windmill you come across,. Ellen theie are_
ahead of 3;du, , plenty of real flesh and
blcod enemies to try your mettle. 'Within
certain limits, the opinions of society, and
even its foibles and its prejudices, must
be. respected ; nor is u proper compliance
with its legitimate requirements keen
iistent with a manly dignity or a- true
independence -Of Character. It is int.:
portant'as far as possible, to keep, in har
'teeny with your surrodudings. .To bene
fit the age. in which you live, it 113 neoes- •
TSS% #APOH A T GEROM.
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1862.
sary to understand its spirit. You must and peril, nursed by those stern men
not be too far behind it, nor too - clir ahead "with Empires in their brains." It was
of it to be in sympathy with,?.it.:. But this idea, abstraction though it were, that
while you live in sympathy'!with the vdrove the colonies into the Revolution.
present, let your eyes be turnet4toWards And, in the midst of the hard necessities
the future to read its promises:',: . Try at of that struggle, it became crystallized
least to understand your own age , and the ; forever in the Declaration of Indepen
next, if you would contribute to'-the pro- :dence. This was the corner stone on
green ,of your race. ..
(which our fathers founded our Govern-
There .,
is too much tendency in men of i wont. And, from the breadth and depth
scholarly tastes and habits to sliOnk from 'of the foundation they laid, let us learn
contact with the busy rush of lifri around ' the height and glorious beauty of the fah
them, and turn back to the quiet of the ' rie they intended should, spring heaven
classic. but dead Past, until they lose all , I ward from it. They did the work well to
sympathy with their own times . Tho which God called them, but they left
Past has its true uses, and stititald 'have, the structure incomplete, so that each sue
its proper share in all our culture: As Iceeding age might add its share to its ris
each geological period has furtt,ished its : ing grandeur. ' Let us see to it then, that
own forms of animal and vegetable life, ; while we preserve unharmed the broad
which have become fossilized and pre- ; foundation of the Temple of our liberty,
served in its strata, so each age fur- ' the part we are to build on it shall con
nishes its own peculiar forms of uhought, I tribute something to the beauty and per
which become embodied in its own litera- I fection of the design of the. great Archi
ture. And as each geological formation 1 tect who planned it.
furnishes its contribution of material for It *as by a fatal coincidence, though
the new strata now forming, wlr;h must but an application of the universal law,
be worked over and rearranged . bilfore It by which light and shadow, good and
can furnish nourishment to the bbsy life evil, health and disease are mingled in the
that swarms on its surface and must one lot of nations as well as individuals, that
day be buried in its bosom ; . so the I while the stern old Puritans were strug.
thought of each past age, while it fur- gling with untold hardships to plant the
niches its share of material for the col- principle of freedom on the barren rocks
ture erf the present, must be reformed and of Massachusetts, the avarice of the moth
infused with a new spirit before it can or country Was forcing the curse of sla
beconie the true food for the intellectual very on the rich and-fertile soil of Virgin
life of to-day. ie. The colonists, to their everlasting
. Truth t eternal, h ,ut h. ell:Rmeo honor, and to the shame of England be it
: ,_
with oodles. chan g e Is fitted to thebour, I
said, protested against it. And, when
tier mirror is turned forward t.O redeot compelled to accept the fact, they repudi-
The promise oftbo future, not the pastY ated the principle it involved. But it
Gentlemen—You enter upon the active was tolerated, until at length it grew so
duties of lire 'in the midst of events that profitable and powerful that it demanded
demand your best energies to - grapple recognition, not as an evil to be endured,
with and understand them. You assume but as a positive good to he protected and
the responsibilities of manhood when it perpetuated, and called on us to acknowb
is worth something to be an American citi- edge its principle— the right of property
zen, when we are taking such a stride in man—as the corner stone of our ite
onward towards our destiny, as makes the peblican institutions.
nations stand agh , st and shakes old sys- The most curious' page of our history
toms and old ideas as with a thunder-fit, will be that, which records the growth
The timid conservative may stand shod- and develo_perneet °him Slave Power—
dcring and see nothing but confusion and Future generations will read with amaze
'disaster in flie heaving, of the
,Clements went, how from mere toleration and en
-11 that is shivering inti fragments the old durance, it went on expanding and
layer of thought and habit in which he strengthening, advancing
- in social, ccele
had become embedded, instead of 'the siastical and political influence, while we,
breaking up of the fountains of the great the .American people, whose mission, it
r deep that prepares .the world ler the , in. was to represent a civilization based on the
coming of a new era with new ideas and freedom of man and the dignity of labor,
higher forms of life ; the kindfahearted absorbed in money-getting and office
'
philanthropist intty_be shocked eV:the des- seeking, believing that the Chief end of
°lotions of war, at the shedding If frater- an American citizen was to get rich, and
nal blood, the agonies of the sulbrying - and the one great object for which the Amer
the lamentations of the bcreavedh.p.tl/t us ican government was gotten up was to
remember that this is a strugglsTAr el.ist-..enable the stupid to got office and the
once =that these are the throere4whieb,A shrewd to get eontraets,,_went.-step by step
nation's greatness is horn. I.'iaaa,ilie.,,brr- down the ladder of compromise - and con.
ginning every Step in the progritS.4 of the OBssion,"Yielding one point after another,
race has been attended by commotion, and until at last we - had almost reached the
has been through blood endure. These point of giving up - everything, and the
have been God's-chosen instriltnenti, ter- slave power dictated the rules of society,
rible as they are. For while whole na- the discipline of the church, the platforms
tions inove onward, what cares he if,a' of the parties, the decisions of the -courts,
few be crushed 1 There sometimes cores and the policy of the government. Ii is 1
a period in a nation's history when the not necessary here to recount each step of
crust of tradition and habit that encloses the slirny'path, down which we crawled
its expanding powers, .becomes so'..thick to the very bottom. History will record '
and hard that only the sturdy blowS of them but too plainly.
the sword can break the tough chrysalis hut, not satisfied with having compelled
and give room to the growing life within. the Supreme Court to declare that the
There are times when a people's life be- constirution extended slavery 'into every
comes so barren, so selfish and besotted foot of the national domain, nor with
that the thunders of war are necessary to having forced the Executive to proclaim
rouse it from its degradation. There are to the world that our constitution was the
times when bullets are more needed than tool of slavery, instead of the charter of
ballots, when cannon balls are better col- freedom, it demanded that the American
tivators of a nation's soil than plough- people should sanction the same doctrine
shares and its richest fertilizer is the blood at the ballot box. '-', at last the issue
Of its best and bravest citizens. was fairly presented—though the great
liad we not reached such a point in Democratic party had to be broken to'
our career 'l Let us look at the events pieces in order to get it presented—"vote
that lie back of this war and-read, if' we to nationalize Slavery, or we break up the I
can, its inclining and its uses. Look at I government." There was no mistaking
our position in history and in the light of it. The petty politicians attempted to ,'
all the upward struggles of the race be- . befog it, but the people understood it in 1
hind us, and all its aspirations reaching I spite of Qua pettituggers—and oligarchs,',
far out before us, read the prophecies of who wade it, understood it. But, in this
the future and learn the Destioy to which issue was involved another, not so much
God has called us as a people. When we how we should vote, but whether we
look at the point of time at which-- we were to vote as our consciences dictated, or
have been called into existence as.a eta-, as oirr masters commanded—whether, in
Lion, with all the experience of history to a word} we were to be men or spaniels.
guide us ; at the grand theatre on which To the credit of human nature be it said,
we have been placed to -play our rule; this last kick-did straighten up our spi
and at the great race now forming from uul columns, and we stood erect and voted
the best blood of all the nations flowing as we pleased; and we pleised to vote
into it to play that role, can we doubt that slavery was sectional, while freedom
that ours was intended to be the Star- was national; that slavery was but the
part in the world's history 7—that we disease of the body politic, while free
were intended to represent . themost ad- dom was the living principle of the na
vanced step of human progress-not on- Lion.
ly the greatest material developement, But the sorriest spectacle of all this
but the highest ideas of Government and disgraceful exhibition was; yet to come.
the rights of man ? Yes Iwe were put; The conspirators, true to their promise,-
here by God to represent the principles went boldly to work to break up the goy
of universal liberty—the right pf.man by eminent, they had controlled so long.—
virtue of his manhood alone and his re. They proceeded deliberately to empty the
sponsibility to God, to be free. It was. treasury, to rob-the- arsenals and to steal'
devotion to this great idea that:drove the the forts, while we, frightened at the storm
Old Pilgrims to face the fierce December we had raised by the display of a little
blasts on the bleak coasts of New England. than liness, went humbly down into' the
' It-was to- found a--new-Empire -on :this dirt again, to bog them to mako peace and
broad Imsis, they braved the dangers of come back. Look at the spectacle:—
the deep and the terrors of the wilderness. There we stood in the facer of the nations,
There was Heroism over
_whieh_we. are in the face of heaven, dickering and bar
never weary of Singing-pwawand• pro= gaining with traitors, 'who openly defied
nouneing eulogies.. There were mien who the government, with thieves in posses
were born for, n purpose; who, felt:they sion of the stolen property of the ;nation,
had- a mission and braved danger and offering again to oompromisortnd give up
death to fulfill it. True, theyhad' much everything they asked, drivelling about'
that was angular and ungraceful in -their reconstruction, that would revepe the
manners and, hard -and unlovely in their decision 'of the ballet-box .and . restore
characters, and have furnished ample them to the power they had so wantonly
material for the- amusement of 'five and prostituted! Telt tae, had we not reached
witlitlgs ever since ; true, oe,t_ did de- ,a-point where something more than wordy
rive great spiritual' edification from .the was needed to rouse us?,,where war, with
nasal tone in which they ,droned their all its carnage , was not the worst calamity
psalms and 'drawled their Bennet:mond con- that could-befal us? The insane folly of
trived somehow to squeeze a great amount the traitors themselves, saved us from this
of eonsolation - Autof - the hardesktheelogy last and .deopeat - hunailiatien: The - first
and ,the most -uripronenriceahlaehristtan blow, that struck down the old flag, was
names, and, believed- they, did tog's' kit- the eignal'for“sneh am_ awakening us the.
vice byhinginglQuakors and - JUrning world never - saw. . At'the first tlminder of
witches. Yet, in spite of 'all:, , tliat they the rebel claitidif,"tito slumbering patriot-
were Goes'. chesen depositories: fon..thel ism of-the nation, shaking - Xom frorrid
groat-truths .for which the Tiaticine'of the- nightmare that , brooded over 'it, and
old' world , were not proriared :: -They breaking, loose from the shackles of party;
were ;nenoahead of their time, and .when : the dams of b us iness 'and tliti endear,'
the old World; proved too' narrow for their Mots' of: home; sprang fuli.armed to the
broad principle, they bOldtrateered their rescue of the government; and wo,,were
bark across the deep in - search-of ,a, new redeemed I 'History does not record such
world where It might find i•ciotn. Hero la recur cation of ii prostrato,und -demoral:
We idea greW and Strengthened amid want . 'zed nt).tionality. - - Whore "is ;your patch-,
work of compromise now? The winds
have carried away its shreds ; it is to be
libped beyond the reach of any future
patcher, who may attempt to stitch its
rags together again.
The contest between these two antago.
nistie eleMents for social and political
supremacy, carried on for years by argu
ments, denunciations and political in
trigue, has grown fiercer and bolder, as
the diverging interests and aims of each
have become more clearly and sharply de
fined, until at last they have met face to
face on the battle-field ; where the struggle
between antagonistic principles and op
posing systems, when they become iden
tified with the ambition and selfish in
terests of men, must , always end. This
fierce conflict is now to settle forever the
question of supremacy. The sword is to
decide whether this great government is
to be controlled by the American people
fla- the spread of democratic institutions,
or whether it is to be but an instrument
to sustain, extend and perpetuate an effete
civilization—an aristocracy based only
on property in human flesh. But the
final result can not be doubtful. It has
not been left to the decision%f chance;
for in all great and decisive contests be
tween the Old and the New, between
Barbarism and Civilization, between Sla-'
very and Freedom, 0 od,somehow or other,
always manages to put the heaviest can
non on the right side.
One fact we now see e!early, however
blind to it we 'were before: It is, that
slavery has never been loyal to our free
government. And why should it be?—
It is but a disease, and what interest could
it have in the healthy growth and de-
velopment of the system, but that it •
inig: , t live by sucking the life blood of
the nation? It has always accomplished
its purposes by a threat to dissolve the
Limon-and break up the Government;
thus, by a mean appeal to our patriotism,
as well as our ICON, inducing us to yield
our convictions of right and duty. For
years we have yielded and compromised
to save the Union from these traitorous
threats, until new we are fighting the same
traitors to accomplish the sain; end—to
preserve the integrity of the government.
And we are purchasing at it a fearful cost
of blood and treasure. But, God will not
cheat us in this bargain, as we have
cheated ourselves in all the bargains we
have made with the hideous monster now
clutching at the throat of the nation.
Life and money are cheaper commodities
in the market than principle, and we are
only paying God's price, high as it is,
fur what we have basely bartered away in
the past. And eve may be thankful if
we, can cancel the debts of the past and
secure our national inte c o;r ity — Tor - ihe:•_
tore with die thousands of liver> and
the hundreds of millions of dollars we
are
.now. _ paying. It will ..be _cheap. at
even that price
In all probability, gentlemen, you will
I not be culled upon to share either the
dangers or the glory of this war, but its
results will be your inheritance. The
magnitude Of these results cannot be ful
ly estimated yet Some of them however,
aro manifest. The stern necessities of
the war have settled, practically and for
ever, many of the old questions concern-
I ing the principles as well as the policy of
I the government; but it will bequeath to'
the future many both new arid old which
• centuries will out settle. The itiot, prom
inent
and troublesome of all these will;
still be, as it ever has been, this inevita..!
We question of slavery, which is now
forced upon us in a new phase and with!
new complications This is pre-eurinently t
our question. It is the Sphinx's riddle'
to us, which we must answer or die. It
begun with our history, and I fear it will
!only end with it. The seeds of the dis
ease were planted in our system at the
same time that the life principle of liberty
was infused into it. Through neglect
and indifference it has remained until it
has become chronic, and can be rooted
out only with our lilb. We have seen
how it has progressed advancing stealthily
I step by step until it seized upon the
vitals of the nation. It may be that the lie.
reit: remedies now being applied may save
the national life and drive the disease to the
extremities, where it will be less dangerous.
There it will remain to vex us while we exist,
and it may be to servo as the instrument of
our destruction, when we have lived out the
time allotted to us. Slavery will undoubted
ly be crippled by this rebellion, but it will
not be killed. Its powerlo control the Go.
vernment is certainly gone forever, but.it -
will still remain as a. root of bitterness ; as
'rho dead fly in our pot of ointment. The
destiny of the black race, whether servile or
free; rs bound up with ours Like the Old '
Man of the sea it will cling to us and we
cannot shake it off. We must make up
our minds to carry it to the end of our career.
The negro qiieettoii cannot be settled once
fur sll and laidraway ont- of our sight ; but
it willT ever return to plague us. We can '
not run away from it, for it inevitably meets
us wherever we turn. However disagreable
it may be, it must be met. Let us then en
deavor to look at it calmly arid deal with it
wisely and prudently as i
~e linportance de
mands. '
tut this war will bear -other fruits. It
will leave 'us the most Powerful government
on the globe, with every energy of the nation.
moral.. intellectual, and industrial - aroused,
and quickened to the highest pitch of inten•
sity. The national heart will bedt with a'
stronger pulsation, sending out its groat life
Currents with a. quicker rush, while our con
ception of the grandeur of our mission us a
people, will be wider and _clearer. than ever
beforis. The experience of years,
his been
compressed into months. The hand that
marks the movement
_on the dial of our pro
gross%as gone forward a century by this
mighty impulse.
- You, gentlemen, go out into life with this,
great - Odra activity rushing madly'past - you '
You must quicken your step and nerve
every energy if you would' keep up with it
YOU must not, if yeti iliciithflitiecoesi;dopend
on the slow mimics by,Which 'ethers in slower
times have won.success. You .must boldly
strike out- a new course for yourselves.—
You must assume (loan,- that. your Prode.
cessers knew nothing of. Old- things have
passed f ps And ,we are. in the midst of
the 'new. As American Scholars you, art
called upon to contribute all of your .tal
ones and ;your culture to the - solution o.
the new problems that now are presented to
wt.'. It will not do to trust entirely to the
orrperieneo of the pastjur light to guide
et a• per annum la advance
t $2 00 if not paid in advam
our sterol into the opening future. Let us
rather turn our eyes to where the morning
light is breaking over mountain tops before
us, and follow its guidance into the rising
glories of the brighter day that awaits us.
It will not do for us to recount the heroism
of our Pilgrim Fathers, or pile monuments
to deeds of our Revolutionary- sires, as -if
that would save us. Nor will it suffice to
shout hosannas to the heroes who are sus
taining the national honor on the bloody
fields of to-day. Their valor saved us from
the perils that threatened months sgo. It is
for ni to meet the Lew responsibilities that
press upon us now, and face boldly the new
dangers that threaten in the future.
"New oneaslons teach now duties: Time makes an
cient good uncouth:
They mUst upward still and onward, who would keep
abreast of truth I
Im, before ❑a gleam her camp-fires; we ounelvee moat
Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the
winter sea,
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood
rliNted key
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Dr. T. addresses all those who have Injured themselves
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them for either bus nese,
study, society or marriage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy effects
produced by early habits of youth, via: Weakness of
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loss of consenter power, palpitation of the heart, dyspap
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functions, ireneral debility, symptoms of ^onsureption.
Mcsrataar—The fearful effects on the mind are much
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IVIARIII.A.GIO
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